Examples of shorthand

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In fact, drawings often represent only the shorthand for a building.
In this sense, threshing floors may have functioned as a symbolic shorthand, an imagery condensing and connoting both fields and houses.
An economist might, therefore, use development as shorthand for economic growth, while a geographer might wish to include other measures of human well-being.
I use the term mixed as a convenient shorthand without wishing to suggest that the child actually has two linguistic systems to mix.
The cryptograms for each type use a similar approach to notational shorthand to represent the risolutione.
Clearly we need to explore the likelihood that an order in these four dioceses for an eastend location was shorthand for east end and altarwise.
I intend to take all this statement down in shorthand.
The multiple-valued features are provided as a notational shorthand for disjunction.
Nonetheless, in what follows, we use 'invariant' as a shorthand term for 'endomorphism-invariant' and hope that no confusion will result.
Perhaps this is why many performance scores for electronic music consist of a minimal shorthand, which may omit or obfuscate crucial information.
An important element is the use of lexical conceptual paradigms (lcp), shorthand notations for sets of possible interpretations.
Each focus group had an independent facilitator and a reporter who audiotaped and took shorthand notes of the discussions.
Do they really have intentions or are our ascriptions of intentions to groups just shorthand ways of referring to the attitudes had by group members?
Of course, as just noted, such characterizations are legal-contentladen and are therefore shorthand for non-legal-content characterizations of the law practices.
The prose is admirably lucid (with the exception of the demographers' shorthand), the exposition perfectly precise, and the sustained intellectual grasp truly remarkable.
An abducible containing variables is considered as a shorthand of its ground instantiation.
Fluents and actions with variables are shorthand representing the set of their ground instantiations.
Instead, they can be considered a shorthand notation that contains the necessary elements to relate structures to a hierarchy of processability.
The moral theorist can claim that in simple cases talk of needs is just homely shorthand for talk of values, rules or virtues.
We write as shorthand for ?./true.
The use of a metaphor (the family) which was originally used as a form of conceptual shorthand by participants involved in working through these changes was explored.
In this paper we have argued that it was the family metaphor, used as a form of conceptual shorthand, that better enabled individuals to make sense of their experiences.
The unfortunate prevalence of this terminological shorthand has tended to obscure the fact that claims about intact and impaired functions in genetic disorders actually constitute implicit developmental theories.
On my analysis, talk of respects of value is nothing more than a convenient shorthand way in which to describe certain patterns in the all-things-considered betterness ordering.
On these occasions, there may be enough room in the narrative to explain a situation without needing to resort to a mutual but infrequently used lexical shorthand.
In addition to over 28,000 often-lengthy questions and witness responses printed verbatim from shorthand transcriptions, the report contains numerous notes and memoranda prepared especially for the hearings.
However, an undifferentiated markedness constraint is just shorthand for the situation in which no constraints rank between the old and new versions of the markedness constraint.
The phonograph, of course, was the great grand-daddy of the dictaphone, a device which, more than any other, was to knock the bottom out of the secretarial shorthand market.
In two cases (actually one interview with two providers), permission to do so was not given so, in accordance with ethical requirements, shorthand notes were taken.
His essay is particularly interesting in its discussion of the role of shorthand in the reporting of political trials, and thus in the creation of royalist martyrology.
A constructor with associated field labels may still be used as an ordinary constructor; features using labels are simply a shorthand for operations using an underlying positional constructor.
Another example of shorthand is the guard in the second alternative of 'to be', which specifies under what conditions a form of 'to be' is "are".
We begin with the historical context, which concerns late developers confronting the twin processes of state formation (in his concise shorthand, the movement from mediated to unmediated states) and industrialization.
They are frequently a convenient shorthand for the full and sometimes complex name of, say, a manufacturer, an organization, a particular piece of equipment, a chemical substance.
More importantly he views cliches as being 'an important part of our spoken language, warm and colloquial, a kind of shared, shorthand way of conducting a conversation'.
In fact, five of these words seem to have been coined specifically as plays on or shorthand references to other words, with no probable intention to establish a new morpheme.
As a notational shorthand, the context free part of the rules (w -> vl vm) is written with the required values of the concat feature of each of the feature bundles.
In order to define a simple transition relation, the shorthand expression t p is used to mean that t distributes over the operators, until the sequential components.
We ought therefore to be free to use the latter, provided we specify that it is to be understood only as convenient shorthand for the former.
The sovereignty of a parliament is shorthand for the sovereignty of the people.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Fourth, the stupidity of using a misleading shorthand description like ‘software patents’, which is deeply misleading.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Several features not appearing in the syntax can be expressed as shorthands.
They can be viewed as shorthands for certain disjunctions and, in general, there are many ways to make an abstract constraint atom true.
We employ three extensions which can be seen as compact shorthands for normal rules.
Most students invent their own shorthand and shortforms.
Hence, we use the specific term "mental health" as a shorthand of convenience.
Numerous tables and figures are given on soil description methods with codes to record observations in shorthand.
Still, the explanatory status of formal preference relations is different if they are seen as shorthand rather than representing people's actual preferences.
In this example, 'the pill' is shorthand for some technology that would have the effect of changing people's patience.
Class is not necessarily a self-conscious identity; it may remain on the level of an analytical shorthand that summarizes a person's social positioning.
He was selling over 80,000 shorthand books a year.
As an intuitive shorthand, a phenogenotype can be thought of as a human with a package of genes and experience.
According to this definition - ideology-as-shorthand - it should have been no more difficult to assess a party's positions than to formulate one's own ideology.
A shorthand for this concept is that the client must be 'at risk'.
The result is that a terminological shorthand has evolved into a conventionalized labelling error.
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